Bug#990042: libnet-amazon-perl: Net::Amazon broken with Amazon API changes?

[gregor herrmann]

Package: libnet-amazon-perl
Version: 0.62-1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable

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I have a script which uses Net::Amazon, and which I run once every
other year. The last attempt ended with no search results but just an
error message of "Gone".

The same can be seen when entering the URL from t/024signature.t in a
browser:
https://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&AWSAccessKeyId=YOUR_AMZN_TOKEN&Operation=ItemSearch&Keywords=Bubl%C3%A9&SearchIndex=Music&ResponseGroup=ItemAttributes,Offers&Version=2009-03-31&Timestamp=2009-06-02T16:31:39Z

leads to a status of "410 Gone" and a content saying

"Gone

The requested resource
/onca/xml
is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource."


A very brief web search indicates that this API endpoint is retired.
Which would make Net::Amazon disfunctional …


Notes:
- - tested with 0.62-2.1 but this most probably applies back to 0.62-1
- - I'll forward the bug upstream once I get a bug number
  Currently there's no issue yet at
  https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Net-Amazon
  or
  https://github.com/boumenot/p5-Net-Amazon/issues
- - If Net::Amazon is indeed disfunctional we either need a fix quickly
  or it shouldn't be in the bullseye release
- - libnet-amazon-perl has no reverse dependencies
- - popcon: vote: 3 + old: 509
- - I think it was my first Debian package of a Perl module, back in 2006 :)
- - I'll look into XML::Amazon soon


Cheers,
gregor


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libnet-amazon-perl depends on:
ii  libhttp-message-perl  6.29-1
ii  liblog-log4perl-perl  1.54-1
ii  liburi-perl           5.08-1
ii  libwww-perl           6.53-1
ii  libxml-simple-perl    2.25-1
ii  perl                  5.32.1-4

Versions of packages libnet-amazon-perl recommends:
pn  libcache-perl  <none>

libnet-amazon-perl suggests no packages.

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